The British Ministry of Defense’s embrace of cloud computing is a model the U.S. Defense Department would do well to emulate, according to DOD CIO Terry Halvorsen.
The British government’s willingness to host commercial cloud services within government facilities is “the right way for us to go,” Halvorsen said April 21 at an AFCEA conference in Washington.
Microsoft announced last November that the company would begin offering cloud services from the United Kingdom, with the firm saying those services would extend to government organizations.
